Issues don’t look so dangerous for Elton John.
The legendary singer, 77, tried to make clear feedback he’s made about his imaginative and prescient issues whereas performing his presenter duties on the 2025 Golden Globes.
“There’s been a lot of stories going around about my regressive eyesight,” John informed the star-studded viewers on the Hollywood Overseas Press Affiliation’s massive evening, as he and Brandi Carlile took the stage to offer out the award for greatest authentic rating. “I just wanted to reassure everybody that It’s not as bad as it seems.”
“So, I’m so pleased to be here with my co-host Rihanna,” the “Rocket Man” singer then quipped to laughs from the friends contained in the Beverly Hilton Lodge in Los Angeles Sunday evening.
The EGOT winner revealed in September that he misplaced his eyesight in his proper eye after creating an an infection final summer season.
“I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye,” John wrote on Instagram on the time.
“It’s been a while since I’ve done anything. I just have to get off my backside,” John informed Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America” in November.
“I unfortunately lost my eyesight in my right eye in July because I had an infection in the South of France,” he went on. “It’s been four months now since I haven’t been able to see. My left eye is not the greatest.”
“There’s hope and encouragement that it will be OK, but I’m kind of stuck in the moment, because I can do something like this, but going into the studio and recording, I don’t know,” John continued. “Because I can’t see a lyric for start.”
“It kind of floored me, and I can’t see anything,” the celebrity additionally confessed. “I can’t read anything, I can’t watch anything.”
No matter his well being woes, John described himself as “the luckiest man in the world.”
The “Benny and the Jets” singer has beforehand opened up about different well being woes he’s battled through the years.
John has had a number of organs eliminated and has had knee and hip substitute surgical procedures.
He acquired a pacemaker within the Nineteen Nineties for an irregular heartbeat, suffered a extreme bout of influenza in 2009 that left him hospitalized, had an abscess found on his appendix in 2013 and endured a “gastric flu” in 2016.
Years of performing concert events around the globe have additionally left him with listening to loss.
